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Adding PHP 8 to Laragon

Currently I'm using Laragon Lite version, it has PHP 7.4.16 and apache 2.4.35 running well in my machine. Meanwhile PHP now has version 8 and it seems like it still supported in Windows machine. Here is my step to change version to PHP 8.

Downloading the PHP 8 Binaries

You can go to https://windows.php.net/download and you can see the option to download the latest available PHP 8 version, I got PHP 8.0 (8.0.8) at the moment.

After it downloaded, you can create a folder inside C:\laragon\bin\php (or your own custom directory) named after the downloaded zip file. The folder name for me is php-8.0.8-Win32-vs16-x64 and then extract anything inside php-8.0.8-Win32-vs16-x64.zip to this folder.

multi php folder in laragon

Switching the PHP version to 8

Try to right-click on Laragon desktop app, choose PHP, and click the php-8.0.8-Win32-vs16-x64 to change to this version.

Now run the apache too. When the apache starting to run, Laragon will pop this message:

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Something is wrong and we need figure the error out.

This issue seems have been fixed in the full laragon version 5 installation as I tried it.

Fixing the Apache Error when using PHP 8

When I'm looking on the laragon forum https://forum.laragon.org/topic/2232/php-8-and-apache-2-compatibility, someone found how to fix the error with video explanation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0ahcFoMwnM.

So to fix it, we need to open the C:\laragon\etc\apache2\mod_php.conf file that contains this code:



# This file is auto-generated, so please keep it intact.
LoadModule php8_module "C:/laragon/bin/php/php-8.0.8-Win32-vs16-x64/php8apache2_4.dll"
PHPIniDir "C:/laragon/bin/php/php-8.0.8-Win32-vs16-x64"
<IfModule mime_module>
    AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
</IfModule>


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Look at the php8_module. You only need to change it into php_module so the code will be like this:



# This file is auto-generated, so please keep it intact.
LoadModule php_module "C:/laragon/bin/php/php-8.0.8-Win32-vs16-x64/php8apache2_4.dll"
PHPIniDir "C:/laragon/bin/php/php-8.0.8-Win32-vs16-x64"
<IfModule mime_module>
    AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
</IfModule>


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Save the file, now turn-off apache and restart it. When you access the localhost in the browser, you should see this now:

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This solution will temporary fix the issue. When you switch back to version 7.4 or else, the above configuration will reset back and you have to change it when using PHP 8. We're looking forward for the permanent solution.


Tell me if this article is helpful and helped you fix your problem in the comment below.

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Ewerton Dutra

Thank you, It works on laragon 5

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Gérard Mondjo

comment inserer les données de mon formulaire dans la bdd créee en laragon

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Dendi Handian

"how to insert the data from my form into the database created in laragon"

That would require another set of tutorial for the case, I believe there's a ton of guide for that out there. If you're working with Laravel, you can start from Laravel built-in Forms guide laravel.com/docs/11.x/blade#forms

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Bunyamin Kurt

Thank you, It works on laragon 4.

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tyrants666

Thanks

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Ariful Islam

So simple. thanks for this article

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Dendi Handian

because there are such things like TL;DR and TL;TW , haha